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Wendigee
knew
nothing
of
our
wild
journey
moonward
,
and
suddenly
--
this
English
out
of
the
void
!
It
is
well
the
reader
should
understand
the
conditions
under
which
it
would
seem
these
messages
were
sent
.
Somewhere
within
the
moon
Cavor
certainly
had
access
for
a
time
to
a
considerable
amount
of
electrical
apparatus
,
and
it
would
seem
he
rigged
up
--
perhaps
furtively
--
a
transmitting
arrangement
of
the
Marconi
type
.
This
he
was
able
to
operate
at
irregular
intervals
:
sometimes
for
only
half
an
hour
or
so
,
sometimes
for
three
or
four
hours
at
a
stretch
.
At
these
times
he
transmitted
his
earthward
message
,
regardless
of
the
fact
that
the
relative
position
of
the
moon
and
points
upon
the
earth
's
surface
is
constantly
altering
.
As
a
consequence
of
this
and
of
the
necessary
imperfections
of
our
recording
instruments
his
communication
comes
and
goes
in
our
records
in
an
extremely
fitful
manner
;
it
becomes
blurred
;
it
"
fades
out
"
in
a
mysterious
and
altogether
exasperating
way
.
And
added
to
this
is
the
fact
that
he
was
not
an
expert
operator
;
he
had
partly
forgotten
,
or
never
completely
mastered
,
the
code
in
general
use
,
and
as
he
became
fatigued
he
dropped
words
and
misspelt
in
a
curious
manner
.
Altogether
we
have
probably
lost
quite
half
of
the
communications
he
made
,
and
much
we
have
is
damaged
,
broken
,
and
partly
effaced
.
In
the
abstract
that
follows
the
reader
must
be
prepared
therefore
for
a
considerable
amount
of
break
,
hiatus
,
and
change
of
topic
.
Mr
Wendigee
and
I
are
collaborating
in
a
complete
and
annotated
edition
of
the
Cavor
record
,
which
we
hope
to
publish
,
together
with
a
detailed
account
of
the
instruments
employed
,
beginning
with
the
first
volume
in
January
next
.
That
will
be
the
full
and
scientific
report
,
of
which
this
is
only
the
popular
transcript
.
But
here
we
give
at
least
sufficient
to
complete
the
story
I
have
told
,
and
to
give
the
broad
outlines
of
the
state
of
that
other
world
so
near
,
so
akin
,
and
yet
so
dissimilar
to
our
own
.
The
two
earlier
messages
of
Mr.
Cavor
may
very
well
be
reserved
for
that
larger
volume
.
They
simply
tell
,
with
greater
brevity
and
with
a
difference
in
several
details
that
is
interesting
,
but
not
of
any
vital
importance
,
the
bare
facts
of
the
making
of
the
sphere
and
our
departure
from
the
world
.
Throughout
,
Cavor
speaks
of
me
as
a
man
who
is
dead
,
but
with
a
curious
change
of
temper
as
he
approaches
our
landing
on
the
moon
.
"
Poor
Bedford
,
"
he
says
of
me
,
and
"
this
poor
young
man
,
"
and
he
blames
himself
for
inducing
a
young
man
,
"
by
no
means
well
equipped
for
such
adventures
,
"
to
leave
a
planet
"
on
which
he
was
indisputably
fitted
to
succeed
"
on
so
precarious
a
mission
.
I
think
he
underrates
the
part
my
energy
and
practical
capacity
played
in
bringing
about
the
realisation
of
his
theoretical
sphere
.
"
We
arrived
,
"
he
says
,
with
no
more
account
of
our
passage
through
space
than
if
we
had
made
a
journey
of
common
occurrence
in
a
railway
train
.
And
then
he
becomes
increasingly
unfair
to
me
.
Unfair
,
indeed
,
to
an
extent
I
should
not
have
expected
in
a
man
trained
in
the
search
for
truth
.
Looking
back
over
my
previously
written
account
of
these
things
,
I
must
insist
that
I
have
been
altogether
juster
to
Cavor
than
he
has
been
to
me
.
I
have
extenuated
little
and
suppressed
nothing
.
But
his
account
is
:
--
"
It
speedily
became
apparent
that
the
entire
strangeness
of
our
circumstances
and
surroundings
--
great
loss
of
weight
,
attenuated
but
highly
oxygenated
air
,
consequent
exaggeration
of
the
results
of
muscular
effort
,
rapid
development
of
weird
plants
from
obscure
spores
,
lurid
sky
--
was
exciting
my
companion
unduly
.
On
the
moon
his
character
seemed
to
deteriorate
.
He
became
impulsive
,
rash
,
and
quarrelsome
.
In
a
little
while
his
folly
in
devouring
some
gigantic
vesicles
and
his
consequent
intoxication
led
to
our
capture
by
the
Selenites
--
before
we
had
had
the
slightest
opportunity
of
properly
observing
their
ways
...
"
(
He
says
,
you
observe
,
nothing
of
his
own
concession
to
these
same
"
vesicles
.
"
)
And
he
goes
on
from
that
point
to
say
that
"
We
came
to
a
difficult
passage
with
them
,
and
Bedford
mistaking
certain
gestures
of
theirs
"
--
pretty
gestures
they
were
!
--
"
gave
way
to
a
panic
violence
.
He
ran
amuck
,
killed
three
,
and
perforce
I
had
to
flee
with
him
after
the
outrage
.
Subsequently
we
fought
with
a
number
who
endeavoured
to
bar
our
way
,
and
slew
seven
or
eight
more
.
It
says
much
for
the
tolerance
of
these
beings
that
on
my
recapture
I
was
not
instantly
slain
.
We
made
our
way
to
the
exterior
and
separated
in
the
crater
of
our
arrival
,
to
increase
our
chances
of
recovering
our
sphere
.
But
presently
I
came
upon
a
body
of
Selenites
,
led
by
two
who
were
curiously
different
,
even
in
form
,
from
any
of
these
we
had
seen
hitherto
,
with
larger
heads
and
smaller
bodies
,
and
much
more
elaborately
wrapped
about
.
